{"id":10673,"date":"2023-01-06T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2023-01-06T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:49:06","slug":"donation-and-exhibition-of-works-by-soley-eiriksdottir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/2023\/01\/06\/donation-and-exhibition-of-works-by-soley-eiriksdottir\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation and Exhibition of Works by S\u00f3ley Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, <strong>Hafnarborg received a generous donation<\/strong> of massive concrete sculptures made by the artist S\u00f3ley Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir (1957-1994), born and raised in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The works add to the museum&#8217;s existing collection of works by the artist, spanning S\u00f3ley&#8217;s short but dynamic career.<\/p>\n<p>The works were bestowed upon the museum by Brynja J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, the daughter of S\u00f3ley and artist J\u00f3n Axel Bj\u00f6rnsson, who made the formal donation last autumn, from which time an exhibition of S\u00f3ley&#8217;s works has been in preparation at Hafnarborg.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will feature the recently acquired artworks, as well as works that were already part of the Hafnarborg Collection, belong to the collections of other museums or private collectors. Clay was S\u00f3ley&#8217;s medium of choice, but early on she mostly worked within the pottery tradition. Later, however, her imagery took on a life of its own in large, three-dimensional works, made from concrete.<\/p>\n<p>The title of the exhibition is Amuse, curated by Ald\u00eds Arnard\u00f3ttir and A\u00f0alhei\u00f0ur Valgeirsd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>S\u00f3ley Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>\u00a0studied metalworking at the Technical College of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur for a year after finishing her studies at the Flensborg Secondary School. In 1975, she then enrolled in the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, first at the Department of Teaching before ultimately graduating from the Department of Pottery in 1981. S\u00f3ley exhibited widely in her short career, for example at the Reykjav\u00edk Art Museum, Hafnarborg, Galler\u00ed Langbr\u00f3k and the AS\u00cd Art Museum, as well as abroad, in the United States, Finland, Luxembourg, Canada and Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Hafnarborg received a generous donation of massive concrete sculptures made by the artist S\u00f3ley Eir\u00edksd\u00f3ttir (1957-1994), born and raised in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The works add to the museum&#8217;s existing collection of works by the artist, spanning S\u00f3ley&#8217;s short but dynamic career. The works were bestowed upon the museum by Brynja J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, the daughter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10676,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10673\/revisions\/10676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}